After graduating from a Bachelor in Arts in Cinema and Audiovisual in Luxembourg, Alexandra Kurt now studies filmmaking at the University of Television and Film in Munich (HFF München). In 2022, her short film August und die Hasenohren won the Deutscher Jugendfilmpreis and the Europa prize for best new talent.
Growing up in the countryside with his grandfather, young Jarko struggles with the painful absence of his mother. As reality dissolves into dreams and magical symbols, he searches for belonging in a world where tradition and imagination intertwine. Through ritual and reverie, he begins a fragile journey toward acceptance.
Bogdan Stamatin is a Romanian director working between France and Romania. In 2018, he directed Une Semaine maximum deux, which screened at numerous international festivals, including the Aubagne International Film Festival. He is also the founder and organizer of the Campulung Film Fest in his hometown.
Mélody Boulissière is a graduate of ENSAD (Paris) and La Poudrière (Valence). She gained recognition with her graduation film, Ailleurs, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinéfondation in 2016. In 2018, she directed Étourdis étourneaux for the "En sortant de l’école" collection, broadcast on France Télévisions.
Vlad Bolgarin is an editor and director viewed as one of the emerging figures of the moldavian film industry. As the head of the Volt Company, created in 2017, he produced his first short and animated film Sight which gained attention in international festivals such as the Busan International film festival. After producing the American-Moldovan series Lost in Moldavia, Bolgarin started on the production of his second short film Place under the sun shot in Romanian.
Born in Warsaw in 1982, Ania Szczepanska made her first short films in France, in the art section of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, before moving to Berlin to study philosophy and cinema. On her return to Paris, she completed a thesis in film history on the relationship between Polish filmmakers and Communist rule in working-class Poland.
Kaja Jakubowska is a filmmaker and visual artist whose cinema emerges in dialogue between documentary and fiction. Rooted in painting and photography, her work develops a film language grounded in presence and sensorial experience. Her directing method is built on attentiveness and relation, resulting in films marked by intimacy and emotional tension.
Beata Migas is a director, producer, and screenwriter, as well as the founder and CEO of Haddock Entertainment. Trained in Film Directing at the Film School in Belgrade, she also holds a degree in Ecological Sources of Energy (AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków) and is a graduate of the European Academy of Diplomacy in Warsaw. Since 2017, she has been developing fiction and documentary projects within European cinema, focusing on underrepresented communities and contemporary environmental issues. Her debut feature, UFO: They Are Already Here (2021), a journalistic film about ufological phenomena, achieved significant success. She has also directed other films, including At Present (2023), presented at the EFM of the 74th Berlinale, and the drama Fish Swim Alive Underwater (2024), premiered at the 11th Finno-Ugric Film Festival in Tartu.
Pola Kapuste works across text and film. After studying Spanish Philology at the Free University of Berlin, she worked as a journalist for German media in Mexico. Upon returning to Berlin, she worked as a writer, producer, and co-director on numerous film, series, and music video productions. Madonnas is her third short film. Created during a residency in Taranto (Italy), the film had its world premiere at the Beijing International Short Film Festival (China) and was selected for competition at the prestigious Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival (Germany).
Born in 2002 Adem Tutić is a student in film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His work mainly discusses the place of the Muslim identity in current Serbia and its relation with the orthodox culture.
